1. NAV In The Cloud: Exploring Options for a Cloud-based Deployment
What’s now and what’s next!

2. Your Presenter
Greg Kaupp

3. What is Dynamics 365?

4. What is Business Central?
Business Central is NAV plus a new SaaS option

5. Business Central Deployment & Licensing
SaaS
Azure
Hosted
On-Premise
Deployed on
Dynamics 365
Azure VM
Third-Party
Client Hardware
Managed by
Parter or Client
Partner or Client
Client
Database -
Azure SQL
SQL Server
Licensing
Subscription
Subscription or Perpetual
Perpetual

6. Business Central Road Map

7. Setting the Stage Who manages their own servers for NAV?
Who has virtualized their NAV servers?
Who has outsourced their NAV Server administration?
Who is hosting their NAV Servers?
How much does it cost?

8. What is Cloud or SaaS? Forrester SaaS Maturity Model
Level 0: Outsourcing is not SaaS. In outsourcing, a service provider operates a major application or a unique application landscape for a large enterprise customer. As the outsourcing company can’t leverage this application for a second customer, outsourcing does not qualify as SaaS.
Level 1: Manual ASP business models target midsize companies. At level 1, a hosting provider runs packaged applications like NAV. Usually, each client has a dedicated server running its instance of the application and is able to customize the installation in the same way as self-hosted applications.
Level 2: Industrial ASPs cut the operating costs of packaged applications to a minimum. At level 2, an ASP uses sophisticated IT management software to provide identical software packages with customer-specific configurations to many SMB customers. However, the software package is still the same software that was originally created for self-hosted deployment.
Level 3: Single-app SaaS is an alternative to traditional packaged applications. At level 3, software vendors create new generations of business applications that have SaaS capabilities built in. Web-based user interface (UI) concepts and the ability to serve a huge number of tenants with one, scaleable infrastructure are typical characteristics. Customization is restricted to configuration. Single-app SaaS adoption thus focuses on SMBs.
Level 4: Business-domain SaaS provides all the applications for an entire business domain. At level 4, an advanced SaaS vendor provides not only a well-defined business application but also a platform for additional business logic. This complements the original single application of the previous level with third-party packaged SaaS solutions and even custom extensions. The model even satisfies the requirements of large enterprises, which can migrate a complete business domain like “customer care” toward SaaS.
Level 5: Dynamic Business Apps-as-a-service is the visionary target. Forrester’s Dynamic Business Application imperative embraces a new paradigm of application development: “design for people, build for change.” At level 5, advanced SaaS vendors coming from level 4 will provide a comprehensive application and integration platform on demand, which they will prepopulate with business applications or business services. They can compose tenant-specific and even user-specific business applications on various levels. The resulting process agility will attract everyone, including large enterprise customers.

9. Mapping NAV to SaaS Maturity Model
Level 0: Outsourcing – Not Cloud 
Level 1: Hosting – Small Step up from Outsourcing 
Level 2: IaaS & PaaS – Business Central or NAV 2016 or later on Azure SQL
Level 3: Single App SaaS – Business Central “SaaS”
Level 4: Business Domain SaaS – Business Central “SaaS”, Office 365, PowerBI, & Flow
Level 5: Dynamic Business Apps as a Service – Visionary Target where we can use functions from whatever app we want on the Dynamics 365 platform

10. Licensing & Deployment Options are Completely Different Topics

11. Licensing Options Perpetual License Concurrent Users
Maintenance Separate
Easy to Add but not to Subtract
Subscription License
Named Users
Maintenance Included
Easy to Adjust each month

12. Licensing Confusion Licensing and Deployment are totally separate
Perpetual License doesn’t mean On Premise
Subscription License doesn’t mean Cloud

13. NAV & Business Central Deployment Options
On Premise (Physical or Virtual)
Hosted (Rackspace, Amazon, Azure)
Single Tenant Azure SQL
Multi-tenant Azure SQL
Business Central “SaaS”

14. Deployment Options – Big Differences
On Premise & Hosted
Requires Licensing SQL Server
Single Tenant Azure SQL & Multi-tenant Azure SQL
No SQL Server Licenses Required
Uses Azure SQL Instead
Business Central “SaaS”
Database and Infrastructure included but no direct control or access

15. Why we should never buy another NAV Server
How much does a server cost?

16. How much does it cost to host?

17. Azure Pricing Calculator

18. Traditional SQL Enterprise Azure VM Hosting

19. Traditional SQL Standard Azure VM Hosting

20. NAV 2016 or later Azure SQL Configuration

21. Azure Maturity Model

22. NAV 2016 or later on Azure SQL Advantages
Lower Cost
On Demand Performance Scaling
Redundancy
Backup & Recovery
Easier Setup of Great NAV Capabilities
Custom URL Mapping
One Click Deployment
Web Client
Universal App Client

23. Questions?